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Marisa Finetti releases her first book, Marisa’s Wine Doodles

Posted on November 27, 2022November 27, 2022 by Amanda Barnes

Circle member Marisa Finetti has released her first book, an illustrated book of wine doodles. Marisa's Wine Doodles illustrates wine basics while showcasing wine's refreshing and amusing sensations and personalities. The 80-page book of hand-drawn doodles features new and original narrated illustrations that highlight grapes, wines, food and wine pairings, origins, rocks and soils, history, an...

Talha Tales: Paul White releases new book

Posted on November 27, 2022December 2, 2022 by Amanda Barnes

After a decade of research, Paul White has released his new book Talha Tales: Portugal’s Ancient Answer to Amphora Wines. The book chronicles the near extinction and subsequent resurrection of the world’s only continuously surviving Roman terracotta pot winemaking tradition. Although talha maintain a very pure, ancient process, White argues that "they are essentially the newest, most complete,...

Block by block: Planting Jardin Altamira

Posted on October 23, 2022October 25, 2022 by Amanda Barnes

Amanda Barnes visits one of Mendoza's fascinating new vineyards, Altos Las Hormigas' Jardin Altamira, which is being planted by soil blocks. A version of this article was originally published on SouthAmericaWineGuide.com There's something quite fascinating about new vineyards being planted in Mendoza. Rather than the regular square blocks of vines, you are increasingly seeing vineyard...

Meet the Member: John Salvi MW

Posted on October 23, 2022October 25, 2022 by John Salvi MW

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Wines of the lake and the mountains

Posted on October 23, 2022November 27, 2022 by Keith Grainger

Keith Grainger zones in on beautiful Bardolino, with its myriad of soil types and mesoclimates, charting the key and ever-increasing role played by the classy Corvina in its well-known red blend. He also sips saline, crispy Chiarettos. Let me begin this article at the bottom. I well remember the nadir of the wines of the Veneto and other northern Italian regions. In the 1970s and early 1980s, the...

Meet the Friend: Neil Palmer, Vintage Roots

Posted on October 23, 2022October 25, 2022 by Amanda Barnes

Neil Palmer is the Founder and Director of organic wine importer Vintage Roots, which he founded at the age of 26 with his friend Lance Pigott. In this Meet the Friend interview, Amanda Barnes finds out how Neil’s harvesting experiences in his 20s sparked a lifelong passion for wine and reggae. What got you into wine? Well, it was Dad who first showed me how to use a corkscrew. He liter...

The benefit of going Pro on Wine-Searcher

Posted on October 23, 2022October 25, 2022 by Wink Lorch

Wink Lorch explores the benefit of one of The Circle's Benefits — a complimentary Pro subscription to Wine-Searcher. She delves into all the reasons why this 23-year-old platform offers more than first meets the eye and can be a useful tool for wine communicators. As I write, Wine-Searcher, which was established in 1999 in London by Martin Brown (also designer of a pioneering website for Berry Br...